Film Screening

The YWCA of Minneapolis in partnership with The Southern Theater present
Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath

Monday, November 9
7 p.m.
$10 per ticket
Q & A with Valarie after the screening

The Southern Theater
1420 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis 55454

Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath is the ground-breaking feature- length documentary film on hate violence in America post-September 11, 2001. The film follows the journey of 20 year-old college student Valarie Kaur as she records crimes against Sikhs and Muslims in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks and examines the larger question of "who counts" as American.

Ms. Kaur began the journey to make Divided We Fall on Sept. 15, 2001 in response to the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a turbaned Sikh American her family knew. Balbir Singh Sodhi was the first of at least 19 people murdered in post-9/11 hate crime.

From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American West, her epic journey confronts the forces unleashed in a time of national crisis - racism and religion, fear and forgiveness - until she finds the heart of America… halfway around the world.

On a two-year international tour, the film inspired deep, courageous dialogue about who we are and who we want to be. The film has won more than a dozen awards and reached 150 campuses and communities in 90 cities across the United States.

Quotes

"...a moving portrait of one of America's rawest periods."
- India West

"a starting point for the new dialogue on race and religion that is essential for America's future."
Diana L. Eck, Harvard University Professor of Religion and Director of The Pluralism Project

Photo credit: Christian Parley, The Fresno Bee

This event is being sponsored by Cargill.